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'We’ve done you proud' — Families speak after NHS Trust fined £2million over patient deaths

Today Southern Health was fined £2m over the “entirely preventable” deaths of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk and Teresa Colvin, aged 45.

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Sara Ryan speaking in Oxford on 26 March 2018, after Southern Health was fined £2million (image #JusticeforLB)

Clare Sambrook writes:

Today at Oxford Crown Court, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust was fined £2m for allowing the “entirely preventable” deaths of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk and Teresa Colvin, who was 45. Passing sentence, Mr Justice Stuart-Smith spoke of their families’ “deep, catastrophic and unspeakable pain, sadness and loss”.